The Virgin Fish of Babughat

Babughater Kumari Maachh

Lokenath Bhattacharya and Translated by Meenakshi Mukherjee

The Virgin Fish of Babughat

Babughater Kumari Maachh

Lokenath Bhattacharya and Translated by Meenakshi Mukherjee

Description

This is the first English translation of Bhattacharya's novel. Set in a detention camp where men and women are divested of their clothes and individual identities but provided with an array of luxuries--including unlimited carnal pleasure--this novel is as much a political allegory as a parable of the triumph of consumerist culture.